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New Year and renewed solidarity for Cuban Five freedom

December 31, 2009 By PW Editorial Board

The worldwide fight for the freedom of the Cuban Five goes on without let-up.

Professor says award should go to Mexico’s electrical union

November 23, 2009

Professor John Womack, an expert on Mexican labor history, has given up a prestigious prize, asking that it instead be awarded to the embattled Mexican Electrical Workers' Union.

Justice bus rolls to stop wage theft

November 21, 2009 By James Thompson

HOUSTON — The Houston Interfaith Worker Justice Center assembled a group of 30 labor activists to ride the Justice Bus here to bring attention to wage theft.

AFL-CIO head denounces Honduras elections

November 18, 2009 By Emile Schepers

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has weighed in on the planned November 29 elections in Honduras, with an open letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Panel tackles unsolved murder of U.S. unionist in Mexico

November 5, 2009

WASHINGTON (PAI)— Amid indications the Mexican government "would like to sweep the whole thing under the rug," as his union president says, a special Inter-American panel on Nov. 4 tackled the unsolved 2007 murder of U.S....